‘We lived our lives in the age of bitumen Camp. Tar and it’s many derivatives makes the world go around, from asphalt to tires, various forms of refined petrol to plastics and even textile fibres. It’s everywhere and in everything even in the table top and the engineered floors, in the plastic containers and the clothes we wear.’

‘You’re right of course. Even the bible mentions tar pits in the Valley of Siddim, near the Dead Sea, the area where Sodom and Gomorrah went up in flames.

‘From Sodom and Gomorrah to the Alberta tar sands. That’s modern human life in a nutshell. And the world is burning. Almost apocalyptic.’

            ‘The irony isn’t lost on me either. We’re living in a world that’s not just burning from the deliberate scorching of the Amazon jungle and rainforests to the brushfires of the tinder dry prairies in Canada and the steppes in Russia. On the other end of the spectrum, the urban centres from Mumbai to Phoenix, from Kinshasa to Mexico City are overheating., much of it a result of climate change. We’re in for a fiery future, accelerated by the fossil fuels we’re burning, spewing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, from cars to air conditioners to factories and generators;.’